Lambo

Lambo lies in the river and woodland country west of Lake Tanganyika, in the wider setting of the Lukuga basin. The land offers cultivable ground, fish from the streams and lake, forest products and game. Paths and waterways connected the villages, and the Lukuga, which drains the lake westward, shaped the movement of people and goods through the district.

Lake Tanganyika's shores were home to communities that combined farming with fishing and iron working, and their chiefs controlled the landing places and the forest routes. Through the early nineteenth century, trade in food, salt and iron goods moved along these routes between the lakeshore and the inland chiefdoms.